Don’t Call it Filler
The 2010 Atlanta Open Orthographic Meet is this Saturday! If you are local, you must go. It’s amazingly awesome.
The Obamas stock White House library with socialist tomes. J’accuse! What? Oh…oops. Update: Read Carolyn Kellog’s more thoughtful take on this ridiculous story.
And from the Library of the Absurd: Queen Victoria – Demon Hunter
Cory Doctorow christens this year’s Sci-Fi “it” novel.
Before you plunk down your hard-earned on an e-book, know what you’re buying with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s e-book checklist.
Ripped from today’s headlines, Sherman Alexie’s Ode to My Sharona:
February 19, 2010 8:08 am 5 Comments
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By Dr J, February 19, 2010 @ 9:42 am
Oh my god. Ronald Reagan really was a socialist.
By Tim, February 19, 2010 @ 11:04 am
Right. And that “fits the narrative”…that I made up.
By Tom B., February 19, 2010 @ 10:44 pm
Hmmm, I thought The Windup Girl was 2009′s “it” novel. Whichever year, it’s a fine book — potentially transformative for the genre in the way Neuromancer was back in ’84 or whenever. It’s been years since an sf novel so impressed me.
By Tim, February 21, 2010 @ 9:01 pm
Tom, it also was just named a finalist for the Nebula Awards. I think I need to step up.